LEARNER OBJECTIVES

As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to adopt business and leadership strategies and skills that advance the concepts of the Quadruple Aim (better care, smarter spending, workforce wellness and patient satisfaction) within the work environment.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to —

• Identify the basic elements of cardiovascular business best practices necessary to become or remain financially successful in an era of payment reform
• Evaluate the MIPS program and determine how it will impact the day-to-day delivery of health care
• Establish leadership strategies that build collaboration, teamwork and trust to help others excel
• Describe principles of workforce wellness
• Review strategies that minimize clinical care variation
• Identify the interprofessional cardiovascular team needed for successful cardiovascular service line management

TARGET AUDIENCE

This interprofessional course is intended for cardiology physicians; members of the cardiology clinician care team, regardless of practice setting; and cardiovascular administrators and executives.

Course Director

Howard T. Walpole Jr., MD, MBA, FACC
Vice President, Clinical Effectiveness
Northeast Georgia Health System
Gainesville, GA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Course Co-directors

Cathleen Biga, RN, MSN
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cardiovascular Management of Illinois
Woodridge, IL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Pamela S. Douglas, MD, MACC
Ursula Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases
Department of Medicine
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Bay Labs (Spouse); CardioDX (Spouse); Elsevier (Spouse); Genome Magazine (Spouse); Pappas Ventures (Spouse); UpToDate (Spouse)

Data Safety Monitoring Board
TIMI 63B REAL (Spouse)

Other Relationship (Stock Options)
Fabric Genomics (Spouse); Host Response (Spouse); Origin Commercial Advisors (Spouse)

Other
Dr Footprint (Spouse); Exploragen (Spouse);

Ownership Interest/Partnership/Principal
CardioDX (Spouse)

Research/Research Grants
23andMe (Spouse); Abbott (Spouse); Akros (Spouse); Contrafect (Spouse); Heartflow (Spouse); Kowa Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Spouse); Singulex (Spouse); Verily Life Sciences (Spouse)

Planning Committee

Charles L. Brown III, MD, FACC
Chief of The Physician Enterprise
Piedmont Healthcare
Atlanta

Disclosures
Other(Son Employed)
Medtronic

Ownership Interest/Partnership/Principal
Boston Scientific; Ultraink Inc.

Andrew M. Freeman, MD, FACC
Director Clinical Cardiology
Director Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness
National Jewish Health
Denver

Disclosures
Speaker's Bureau
Boehringer Ingelheim

Tyler J. Gluckman, MD, FACC
Medical Director
Center for Cardiovascular Analytics, Research and Data Sciences (CARDS)
Providence St. Joseph Health
Portland, OR

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Richard J. Kovacs, MD, FACC
Q. E. and Sally Russell Professor of Cardiology
Krannert Institute of Cardiology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Biomedical Systems; Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Data Safety Monitoring Board
Eli Lilly

Other Relationship (Events Adjudication Committee for Device Trials)
Cook Medical - MED Institute, Inc.

Research/Research Grants
Armaron Pharmaceuticals; Siemens

Andrew P. Miller, MD, FACC
Board of Governors Chair
American College of Cardiology
Clinical Cardiologist
Cardiovascular Associates
Birmingham, AL

Disclosures
Research/Research Grants
Novartis

Geoffrey A. Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Chief of Cardiology
Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
Atrium Health
Charlotte, NC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Robert A. Shor, MD, FACC
Past Chair of the Board of Governors
American College of Cardiology
The Cardiovascular Group, PC
Virginia Heart
Reston, VA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

C. Michael Valentine, MD, FACC
President
American College of Cardiology
Stroobants Cardiovascular Center
Centra Medical Group
Lynchburg, VA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

B. Hadley Wilson, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina School
of Medicine
Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute
Charlotte, NC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Advisory Council

James M. Daniel Jr., JD, MBA
Director
Hancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagle, PC
Richmond, VA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Suzette Jaskie, MBA
Vice President, Cardiovascular Service Line
Ascension
Milwaukee, WI

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Dawn McKnight, BS
Director of Business Development
American Association for Physician Leadership
Tampa, FL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Michele M. Molden, MBA, FACHE
Senior Vice President
Optum Advisory Services
Nashville, TN

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Kevin C. Nolan, MBA
Managing Director
Navigant
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Boston Scientific

Joel Porter, JD
Co-chair of the Physician/Hospital Integration Practice
Maynard Cooper
Birmingham, AL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Joel Sauer, MBA
Vice President, Consulting
MedAxiom
Ft. Wayne, IN

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Nurse Planner

Kimberly V. Cheramie, MSN, RN-BC
Nurse Planner
American College of Cardiology
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Faculty

Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Physician Leadership
Tampa, FL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Timothy Attebery, DSc, MBA, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer
American College of Cardiology
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Stephen C. Beeson, MD
Founder
The Clinician Experience Project
San Diego

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Ginger K. Biesbrock, PA-C, MPH, MPAS, AACC
Vice President, Consulting
MedAxiom
Grand Rapids, MI

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Paul N. Casale, MD, MPH, FACC
Executive Director, NewYork Quality Care
NewYork-Presbyterian
Columbia
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Richard A. Chazal, MD, MACC
Medical Director, Heart and Vascular Institute
Lee Health System
Fort Myers, FL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Michael Chernew, PhD
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy
Director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Abbott; Amgen; Freedman Healthcare; McKinsey & Company; Pfizer Inc; PHE; PhRMA; St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition; VBIDI

Other Relationship
Milliman (Royalty Fees); MITRE Corporation (Retainer to Advise Fellows Program); Virta Health (Scientific Advisory Board)

Research/Research Grants
Universal American

William E. Downey, MD, FACC
Medical Director, Interventional Cardiology
Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
Carolinas Healthcare System
Charlotte, NC

Disclosures
Other Relationship
Medtronic

Thomas A. Draper, MBA
Vice President, Hospital Operations
Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
Atrium Health
Carolinas Healthcare System
Charlotte, NC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Boston Scientific; Edwards Lifesciences

Tasha Eurich, PhD
Principal
The Eurich Group
Denver

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Steven Farmer, MD, FACC
Senior Advisor
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Edward T. A. Fry, MD, FACC
Chair, Cardiology Divisionand CV Service Line
St. Vincent Health
Chair, Ascension Health CV Service Line
Ascension Health
Indianapolis

Disclosures
Ownership Interest/Partnership/Principal
Actavis, Inc.; Athenahealth; Bayer Healthcare; Community Health Systems; Gilead; Johnson and Johnson; McKesson; Pfizer Inc; St. Jude Medical; The Heart Center of Indiana, LLC

Linda Gates-Striby, CCS-P, ACS-CA
Director, Corporate Compliance
St. Vincent Medical Group
Indianapolis

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Robert C. Hendel, MD, FACC, MASNC
Director
Tulane University Heart & Vascular Institute
Sidney W. and Marilyn S. Lassen Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Chief, Section of Cardiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

William T. Katsiyiannis, MD, FACC
President and Chairman of Cardiology
Minneapolis Heart Institute
Vice President, Allina Health CV Service
Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health
Minneapolis

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Akshay K. Khandelwal, MD, FACC
Director, Cath Lab Quality and STEMI Program
Director, Outpatient Cardiovascular Services
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

David C. Konur, MHA
Chief Executive Officer
Cardiovascular Institute of the South
Baton Rouge, LA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Simon Kos, MBBS, BSC (Med), MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

James McKenna, MBA, PCC
Executive Physician Leadership Coach
Leadership Coach for Physicians
Bethesda, MD

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Marc Newell, MD, FACC
Chief of Clinical Cardiology
Vice President of Operations
Minneapolis Heart Institute
Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health
Minneapolis

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Cheryl B. Pegus, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President Healthcare Services and Chief Medical Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Cambia Health Solutions
Portland, OR

Disclosures
Officer, Director, Trustee, or other Fiduciary Role
Tactile Medical; USACS

David E. Perloff, MD, FACC
ACC Florida Chapter Governor
Cardiovascular Disease Specialist
Broward Health Medical Center
Broward Health Imperial Point
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Orange Theory Fitness
Speaker's Bureau
Bristol-Myers Squibb; Pfizer Inc; Regeneron; Sanofi

Athena Poppas, MD, FACC
Chief, Cardiology Division
Director, Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute
Rhode Island Hospital Division of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Brown University
East Providence, RI

Disclosures
Stock
GE Healthcare

Michael J. Romano, MHSA
Director
Navigant
Chicago

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Michael K. Schroyer, RN, MSN, MBA, AACC
Chief Operting Officer
St. Vincent Health
Ascension Health
Indianapolis

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Craig E. Strauss, MD, MPH, FACC
Vice President of Quality, Innovation and Advanced Analytics
Medical Director
Center for Healthcare Delivery Innovation
Minneapolis Heart Institute
Minneapolis

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria
Abbott

Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC
Immediate Past President, American College of Cardiology
Medical Director, Heart Failure and Cardiac
Transplantation
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

R. Jeffrey Westcott, MD, FACC
Medical Director
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Interventional Cardiology and Informatics
Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute
Swedish Medical Group
Aberdeen, WA

Disclosures
Other Relationship (Chair, Cardiology Steering Board)
Epic

Joint Society Faculty

Rob S. B. Beanlands, MD, FACC, FASNC
President, American Society of Nuclear Medicine
Vered Chair and Head, Division of Cardiology
Professor, Medicine (Cardiology)/Radiology
Tier 1 University of Ottawa Cardiovascular Research Chair
Director, National Cardiac PET Centre
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Ottawa, Canada

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Robert C. Hendel, MD, FACC, MASNC
Director
Tulane University Heart & Vascular Institute
Sidney W. and Marilyn S. Lassen Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Chief, Section of Cardiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Milind Y. Desai, MBBS, FACC
Staff Cardiologist
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Stephen H. Little, MD, FASE, FACC
John S. Dunn Chair in Clinical Cardiovascular Research and Education
DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
Houston Methodist and Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston

Disclosures
Research/Research Grants
Abbott; Medtronic; Siemens

Thomas F. Deering, MD, MBA, FHRS, FACC
Chief, Clinical Centers of Excellence
Chief, Arrhythmia Center of Excellence
Piedmont Heart Institute
Chief, Quality Officer
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
Mark E. Silverman, M.D. Educational Chair
Piedmont Healthcare
Atlanta

Fred M. Kusumoto, MD, FHRS, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Jacksonville, FL

David Alan Cox, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Cardiovascular Associates
Director, CCL
Brookwood Baptist Health
Birmingham, AL

Peter L. Duffy, MD, MMM, FACC, FSCAI
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Service Line
Reid Heart Center at FirstHealth of the Carolinas
Pinehurst, NC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Faisal Latif, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor of Medicine/Interventional Cardiology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab,
VA Medical Center
Governor, ACC Oklahoma Chapter
Oklahoma City, OK

Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement
As a provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of their directly provided or jointly provided/co-provided educational activities. Planners, presenters, and other contributors, in a position to control the content are required to disclose to the audience all relevant financial relationships he/she and/or his/her spouse or domestic partner may have, occurring within the past 12 months, with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. When an unlabeled use of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, the contributor should disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational.

ACCF is committed to providing its learners with high-quality activities and materials that promote improvements and quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business or commercial interest. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent participation in educational activities by persons with a financial or other relationship, but rather to provide learners with information on which they can make their own determination whether financial interests or relationships may influence the education activity.

ACCF assesses conflicts of interest (COI) with its faculty, planners, managers, staff and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of CME/CNE activities. All relevant potential conflicts of interest that are identified are thoroughly vetted through a process that includes course directors and appropriate peer review by education committee chairs/members, for fair balance, scientific objectivity and validity, and patient care and safety recommendations. Please note ACCF staff involved with this activity have nothing to disclose.

Faculty Disclosures

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Cancellations
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Poster Presenters
2019 CV Summit Poster Presentations

Business of cardiology/Care delivery (Operational, administrative and financial process to improve health care delivery)

A Multi-Disciplinary Team Approach to the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in a Nurse Practitioner Led Atrial Fibrillation Clinic  Primary Author: Amber Seiler ConeHealth Other Authors: Sheryl Booth, Rich Lundy, James Allred Proactive Daily Rounding by a Clinical Documentation Specialist with Medical Housestaff Improves Accuracy of Reported Expected Mortality (file coming soon) Primary Author: Corey Tabit The University of Chicago Medicine Other Authors: Patricia McBride, Amy Kratochvil, Mitchell T. Coplan, James K. Liao, Daniel Adelman

Cost reduction (Processes to reduce health care expenditures)

Optimizing Cardiovascular Healthcare Delivery to Reduce Cost in the Basic Military Trainee (BMT) Population  Primary Author: Travis Batts, MD, FACC Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center Other Authors: Francis Tran, Letisha Patterson, Maria Belmonte, Matilde Tavares, Donald Hudson Same Day PCI Discharge  Primary Author: Kelly Carlson St. Vincent Medical Group Other Authors: Andrew Fouts, Emily Sego Sound the Alarm! Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry  Primary Author: Jaime Holbert University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville Other Authors: Kayleigh Litton, Dale Wortham, Trey Lacharite Cost Reduction in a Value Based World: A Service Line Approach  Primary Author: Geoffrey Rose Atrium Health Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute Other Authors: Leslie Doyle, Adam deJong, Troy Leo, Noreen Kelly, Jai Singh, Sanjeev Gulati, Bill Downey Success Through Data: Blood Utilization Rates Improve with the Help of Analytics  Primary Author: Lori Shannon St. Vincent Heart Center Other Authors: Emily Sego, Peter Walts Reducing Inappropriate Utilization of the Intermediate Intensive Care Unit Level of Care Amongst Cardiovascular Medicine Providers  Primary Author: Justin Slade Stanford University School of Medicine Other Authors: David Svec, Lisa Shieh

Implementation science (Study of methods to promote the adoption and integration of evidence-based practices/interventions into health care)

Keys to Implementing Electronic Cardiology Consultation at an Academic Medical Center  Primary Author: Kerrilynn Carney Yale New Haven Hospital Other Authors: Anita Arora, Fiona Zhu, Madeline Wilson, Christine Day Kimbirly Moriarty, Hyung Paek, Brita Roy, Erica Spatz

Quality improvement (Systematic and continuous actions leading to measurable improvement in health care service and/or health status)

AMI Readmission Reduction Program: "Never Discharge a Patient"  Primary Author: Deepti Bhandare Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center Other Authors: Thomas Shimshak A Clinical Redesign Project to Improve the Efficiency and Appropriate Utilization of Echocardiography at a Community Hospital within a Health System  Primary Author: John-Ross Clarke Bridgeport Hospital Other Authors: Gilead Lancaster, Stuart Zarich, Dawn Blaszka, Anesta Williams Making Improvements Throughout the Continuum of Care to Prevent Avoidable Readmissions: A System Approach  Primary Author: Adam deJong Atrium Health Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute Other Authors: Geoff Rose, Bill Downey, Leslie Doyle, Noreen Kelly, Troy Leo, Sanjeev Gulati, Jai Singh A Heart Care Navigation Team Improves Acute Myocardial Infarction Care and Outcomes  Primary Author: Amber Furr Atrium Health Other Authors: William Downey, Tom Draper, Ciearra Heidelberg A Simple Protocol to Reduce Perioperative Urinary Catheter Associated Complications in Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: A Quality Improvement Initiative  Primary Author: Elysia Grose Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Other Authors: Mehrdad Golian, Mouhannad Sadek, Simon Gagne, Pablo Nery, Girish Nair, Andrew Klein, Calum Redpath, David Birnie Finding Joy in Work: Interventions to Promote Fulfillment and Reduce Burnout  Primary Author: Ran Lee University of Michigan Medical Center Other Authors: Prasanthi Yelavarthy, Jamie Beach, Diane Lopez, Andrea Thompson, Michael Thomas Association of a Systems-Based Morbidity and Mortality Conference with Shorter Completion Times for In-hospital ECGs  Primary Author: Andrew E. Levy Data Science to Patient Value (D2V), University of Colorado School of Medicine Other Authors: Melanie Whittington, Tyler Anstett, Steven Simon, Allen Wentworth, Susan Osman, Larry A. Allen, P. Michael Ho A Nurse Navigator-Driven Program to Increase Palliative Care Referrals for Advanced Heart Failure Patients  Primary Author: Margaret Richter Providence Heart Institute Providence St. Vincent Other Authors: Linda DeSitter, Adam Mizgajski, Deborah Strohecker Structured Utilization of Multiple ACC Clinical Apps at the Point of Care Significantly Improves Quality of Care in Angina Patients: One Year Results from the Florida Cardiovascular Quality Network  Primary Author: A. Allen Seals Florida Cardiovascular Quality Network Florida Chapter, American College of Cardiology Other Authors: William David, Kim St. Clair, Kevin Klein, Pamela Rama, James Campbell, Marcus Cox, Yazan Khatib

Value-based care (Delivery of care where reimbursement is based on patient health outcomes)

Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Case Review Results in Increased Accuracy in Mortality Reporting  Primary Author: Kevin Ball, MD, MBA Ascension St. Vincent Hospital and Health Center Other Authors: Stephanie Ayers, Mary Norine Walsh, Ashwin Ravichandran Implementation of a Stop Bill Process to Ensure Correct Classification of Myocardial Infarction-Related Deaths  Primary Author: Renee Swanson Center for Cardiovascular Analytics, Research and Data Science (CARDS), Providence Heart Institute Other Authors: Ty Gluckman, Hannah Berg, Joanna Herzog, Curt Kandra, Cindy Keithley, Dan Westerdahl

Physicians

The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The ACCF designates this live activity for a maximum of 19.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants

The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Nurses

The American College of Cardiology Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC Provider number 0019).

The ACCF designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.25 continuing nursing education contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

While offering credits noted above, the course is not intended to provide extensive training or certification in the field.

Location
All sessions will be held at The Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek located at 14100 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, Orlando, FL, 32821. The hotel's main phone number is 407-597-3600.

Accommodations
You may reserve your room at The Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek by clicking here, by typing this URL into your browser: https://book.passkey.com/e/49761628 or by calling Hotel Reservations at 888-353-2013. When calling be sure to use group code HACC.

Room Rates
The room rate at The Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek is $275 plus tax (currently 12.5%) and an optional $35 resort fee per night. The ACC room block is scheduled to be held until January 16, 2018, but may sell out prior to this date. We advise you to register for the course and reserve your lodging as soon as possible. When you make your reservation, please be sure to ask about early departure fees and cancellation penalties.

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We encourage participation by all individuals. If you have a disability, advance notification of any special needs will help us serve you better.

Faculty and course are subject to change without notice.

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The views expressed in this course are those of the individual speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ACC.